Search Results: Titles starting with C from Bernard Quaritch Ltd

8 parts in one vol., 4to in 8s, pp. [16], 88; [4], 209, '230-231', 212-213, '234-264' [i.e. 244]; [4], 84; [4], 57, [1]; [4], 58; [4], 67, [1]; [4], 86; [4], 37, [1] (register continuous); title within an elaborate equestrian woodcut border to each part (the first as a general title, pts ii- iii dated 1616), woodcut initials, ornaments, and illustrations; bifolia I3.6 and I4.5 misbound, minimal paperflaws to C2 and 2A5 touching text but not affecting legibility; a beautiful copy, clean and crisp, in contemporary British calf, borders and spine roll-tooled in blind, board-edges roll-tooled in gilt, edges speckled red and with horizontal lines in ink to mark the 8 parts, a leaf of printer's waste (see below) at each end folded once to form 2 stubs (rubbed through by the sewing supports, otherwise well-preserved); a few light marks, small chip to first band, neat repair to headcap and subtle repair to corners; upper margin of title neatly inscribed 'John Marsham D.' in contemporary ink, large pencil… Read More

12mo, pp. [xii], 240; with one full-page woodcut illustration included in pagination, and woodcut initials; some spotting and browning in places, ownership inscription, dated 1775, on front free endpaper and title-page; in contemporary vellum, dustsoiled and worn, with some loss to spine. As far as we are aware unrecorded edition of this uncommon treatise on the celebration of the mass and its associated rituals. Dealing both with private (low) masses and with solemn mass and solemn vespers, the work explains the meaning and performance of the non-verbal aspects of the liturgy: genuflection, the sign of the cross, the communion of the faithful, the movements of the celebrant's hands, the role of acolytes and thurifers (also during requiem masses), the office of the subdeacon and deacon, the use of incense, and instructions for serving at the missa private. The woodcut on page 200 depicts the altar, annotated with numbers referring to the relevant parts of the text.
The text itself appears first to… Read More

First edition, no. 74 of 225 copies of the special edition, signed by Lewis, additionally inscribed, in c. 1951, 'To Geoffrey Bridson (through whom I am enabled to finish this book) – deepest thanks and friendliest greetings / Wyndham Lewis'.'In 1921 Lewis had embarked on another ambitious project, a Rabelaisian fictional anatomy of postwar Britain.' The first portion 'finally and circuitously achieved publication at the end of the decade: The Childermass (1928), a work of theological science fiction set in an encampment of the dead on the banks of the River Styx' (Trotter).When D. G. Bridson first read The Childermass in 1932, he had concluded that 'the setting of the drama is only to be seen convincingly in the imagination. It was that fact, when I reread The Childermass in 1950, that had assured me it would make magnificent radio'. The radio production of 1951 was the genesis of his friendship with Lewis, and their collaboration in turn enabled Lewis to finish the remaining two parts of what… Read More

4to, ff. [iv], CLXXXIIII; title printed in red and black, criblé
woodcut printer's device on title, criblé initials; sporadic marginal annotations and underlinings in an early hand; worming to gutter throughout, and some wormholes in text, never affecting legibility; occasional staining but largely clean throughout; t4-5 loose; in early twentieth-century patterned paper-covered stiff wrappers; some wear.
Rare edition, attractively printed and with occasional contemporary annotations, of Cicero's Philippics, comprising Cicero's text along with the commentaries of the Cretan humanist George of Trebizond (1396–1486), the Bolognese rhetorician Filippo Beroaldo (1453–1505), and the Perugia historian Francesco Maturanzio (c. 1443–1518). The printer, Thomas Caseus (or Kees) was active in Paris between 1507 and 1516.
The commentary attributed to Trebizond was first printed in Venice around 1475, and deals principally with factual and linguistic aspects of Cicero's speeches, rather… Read More

Folio, ff. [vii], 182, [20]; Estienne's wood-engraved device to title. small marginal wormhole through the first four quires, title and another couple of page-spreads soiled, light waterstaining to the upper margin of the initial quires and the last leaf, upper inner corner of last leaf chipped, some sparse staining; contemporary panelled calf, rebacked, panelled sides with multiple frames of urns and palmettes; corners repaired, sides worn; ownership inscriptions on the titlepage (?Johannes Paliost, with purchase price record of 38 sous; a later inscription, ?Margnan), occasional contemporary marginalia, ownership inscription to front pastedown ('Lazard') dated 1750; modern bookplate (Froissart).First folio edition of Terence's comedies by Robert Estienne. The printer had already produced a small, octavo edition of Terence's works in 1526. Confident in its success, and through access to an excellent and ancient manuscript of the fourth-century commentary by Aelius Donatus, 'in 1529 he published a… Read More

Two volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 5-482; 361, [4] approbatio and privilege, [1] blank; with four folding plates after p. 352; woodcut headpieces; some spotting and marking, especially to start of volume one, but otherwise, aside from some light browning, clean and fresh; paper reinforcement to the fold in the plate depicting the system of Tycho Brahe, after old tear, with a loss of c. 1mm; in contemporary sheep, spine with raised bands tooled in gilt with morocco lettering-pieces; some wear, and slight loss to corner of upper board of volume one (possibly rodent-induced). Very uncommon guide, by the Parisian surgeon Jean-Charles-Félix Caron, to the philosophy student in the University of Paris needs to know in order to graduate first as bachelor and then as master of arts in the university. The work is essentially a kind of bluffer's guide: "there are people who, obliged to do their philosophy to pass their MA, can only devote themselves imperfectly to its study, as they are often distracted by other… Read More

A facsimile reprint of Quaritch's series of profiles of bibliophiles, with brief lists of the treasures of their collections and notes on their dispersal at auction or in the trade, which remains a useful resource both for the history of book-collecting in Britain and for provenance research. Contributions towards a Dictionary of English Book-Collectors was originally published in fascicules between 1892 and 1921, and the contributors included F.S. Ellis, W. Carew Hazlitt, Alfred H. Huth and Robert C.G. Proctor – however, as Arthur Freeman states in his biography of Quaritch in the ODNB, Quaritch's contributions were 'largely ghost-written'.Osler 7305.8vo, pp. [6 (half-title, verso blank, title, imprint on verso, index and illustrations)], 9-350; portrait frontispiece, colour-printed and monochrome illustrations and facsimiles in the text, some full-page; original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; fine.

Five works, various formats; in uniformly excellent condition.One more Brevity. New York, Spiral Press, 1953. Pp [12]; illustrations byPhilip Grushkin; small stain to one page, else very good, stapled in theoriginal wrappers, booklabel of D. G. Bridson, inscribed 'To GeoffreyBridson from Robert Frost after the pleasantest sort of encounter Dec13 1956', namely the recording they made together – see Prospero andAriel pp. 214-5). Crane B25 (one of 587 printed for distribution by Frost).A-wishing Well. New York, Spiral Press, 1959. Pp. [12]; illustrations byThomas W. Nason; fine, stapled in the original wrappers, booklabel of D.G. Bridson. Crane B31 (one of 670 printed for distribution by Frost).Accidentally on Purpose. New York, Spiral Press, 1960. Pp. [10]; fine,stapled in the original wrappers, booklabel of D. G. Bridson. Crane B32(one of 700 printed for distribution by Frost).The Wood-pile. New York, Spiral Press, 1961. Pp. [10]; cover andillustrations by Thomas W. Nason; fine, stapled in the… Read More

4 vols, 4to, comprising 87 dissertations in all, ranging from 20pp to 118pp; some printed on blue paper; occasional contemporary annotations, underlinings, and crossings out, but otherwise, aside from the odd bit of staining to head and foot of the first few leaves of each volume, clean and fresh throughout; the penultimate dissertation wanting one gathering, otherwise complete; uniformly bound in blue wrappers with hand-written paper labels on spines, more or less contemporary; some wear to wrappers, but still a very attractive set.
An extraordinary collection, bound up very soon after the last was published, of eighty-seven doctoral dissertations presented to the ancient medical school at Montpellier in the first ten years of the nineteenth century. The four volumes are divided into two sets, the first containing theses on fevers (including… Read More